X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,ea64cebcca8f7205 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: tk2@urz.tu-dresden.de (Tobias Koehler) Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS TREE Date: 1997/12/19 Message-ID: <67eri1$ch9$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 308683318 References: <349742E5.4487EB71@on.spammer> <34994873.41C67EA6@on.spammer> <67e7pf$aoj$1@ci.ist.utl.pt> Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Reply-To: tk2@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On 19 Dec 1997 16:35:59 GMT, Seal do Mar (**l33812@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote in alt.ascii-art: > > >> � Don't know - looks like a small spaceship. > > >Looks like a rune to me. > My display show that when it doesn't know how to dispay the correct symbol :) Here it is an uppercase Icelandic Thorn. > > >> � Degrees (as in 32� Centigrade... I wish!) > > >No, it looks like a small troll. > Nope ... degrees would be the symbol without the dash ... it is more like: > 1� meaning first .. in some Spanishish languages.. yes.. degrees is � > > >> � This is a double s in German - as in Stra�e (Strasse) meaning Street. > > >The greek letter beta. > Yup ... beta beta :) Actually there is some disagreement about it, and a German sharp s does look different from a Greek beta, but in ISO 8859-1 it is definitely a sharp s (ISO 8859-1 contains no other Greek letters) > > >> � I believe that this is an accented o used in the Norwegian? language. > > >I see the same symbol as you see, but it is not "an accented o", it is a > > >Norwegian �. An � is not a funny looking O, it is a completely different > > >letter with a completely different sound, it just happens to look a > > >little bit like an O. > > It's a slashed o. > > (/) like that, only more o-like. ;) > I also see a slashed "o", but I believe it is meant to be another greek > letter, called fi (to be read fee) but maybe written in some other way .. phi?! > Or is it theta?! Well ... I know it's greek :) Again, ISO 8859-1 contains no Greek letters. � and � are Norwegian/ Danish letters. > > >>  This symbol appears on *my* computer when I try to display a forbidden > > >> character, or a character that has no symbol assigned to it. > > >This symbol appears on my computer not at all. > > It's a square box. > > _ > > |_| only more connected. :) > ctrl+O ?! ^O here. > > >> � This means "very much greater than" in mathematical terms, as in > > >> 10e12�1 (ten thousand billion is very much greater than one). > > >Yes, I see the same thing that you see. > > Odd, I thought it went with � (its mirror image character) as European-style > > quote marks? At least, I forget what language I saw them used in, but it > > was --oh never mind, all the people I argue against know everything more > > about Europe than I do, 9/10ths of y'all are Nederlanders.. > > Anyway, I see << and >> and is taht what you see? > when I was 8 or 9 I still used that those instead of "", nowadays it > is no longer used, as a matter of fact I don't see any use for it! French quotation marks: � comme �a � or alternative German quotation marks: �Wichtig� Swiss German: �Gr�ezi miteinand!� It's much too small to be the Mathematical sign. > > >> � Another accented character, but from which language I do not know. > > >I see a Y with a dot over it. > me too! Accented Y. > Ah!! ladies and gentelmen ... what does this tell us? :) > We are seeing this characters diferrent from system to system ... > and that means they are not standard ASCII characters ... and that means we > should not use them for decorating trees!! (or anyother thing in here :))) No.. there is a standard.. see http://www.unicode.org/ :) -- tobias benjamin koehler tk2@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de __/==----__ _________ _________ _________ _________ __----==\__ / o oo | 'H'|'H=======|'H=======|=========|'H=======|`H` | oo o \ `-o-o----oo-"-oo---oo-"-oo---oo-"-oo---oo-"-oo---oo-"-oo----o-o-'